Macro Monday: morning dew on a white rose

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Today I’m taking part in the Macro Monday photo challenge. You can click on each photo for a larger view.

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Sometimes I don’t have to go too far to enjoy the beauty that nature has to offer. Here are a few close-ups of the morning dew on the petals of a white rose in my garden, taken from a few different angles.

Macro Monday: morning dew on a white rose
Macro Monday: morning dew on a white rose
Morning dew drops on a white rose
Morning dew drops on a white rose
Dew drops on rose petals
Dew drops on rose petals

Macro Monday: the hairpin banksia shrub and its blooms

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Today I’m taking part in the Macro Monday photo challenge. You can click on each photo for a larger view.

If you like what you see, I encourage you to subscribe so you can enjoy the new photos I post a few times a week.

I ran across this shrub over the weekend and I had to take a few pictures of its very peculiar blooms. This is the hairpin banksia shrub, part of the protea family, originally from South Africa.

Macro Monday: hairpin banksia shrub
Macro Monday: hairpin banksia shrub

Take a closer look at the shrub’s blooms. I don’t even know if you could call them flowers. Aren’t they something?

Macro Monday: hairpin banksia shrub bloom
Macro Monday: hairpin banksia shrub bloom

Here’s an ever closer look at a hairpin banksia bloom. Nature sure had fun with this one!

Close-up of a hairpin banksia shrub bloom
Close-up of a hairpin banksia shrub bloom

Floral Friday Fotos: bright yellow sunflower

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Today I’m participating in Floral Friday Fotos. Remember you can click on the photo below to see them in a larger format.

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If you need a little splash of color today, I have just the thing for you – a bright yellow sunflower I photographed at a local pumpkin patch earlier this week.

Floral Friday Fotos: bright yellow sunflower
Floral Friday Fotos: bright yellow sunflower

I love how the center of the sunflower expands as the sunflower seeds grow inside of it.

Center of a sunflower
Center of a sunflower

It’s amazing how large the center grows as the seeds develop.

Seeds growing inside a sunflower
Seeds growing inside a sunflower

Help me pick photos for my 2014 water lily calendar

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I want to thank everyone for all the feedback on my photo selections for my water theme 2014 photo calendar.  Today, I’m asking your feedback on photos I’d like to include in my 2014 calendar on water lilies. Just tell me which ones you’d really want to see, and which ones I should definitely keep or get rid of. I appreciate your honest feedback.

Remember that everyone who comments on one of my 2014 photo calendar related posts will be entered in a drawing to win one of my calendars (you can pick your favorite theme). The only requirement I have for the winner is to be located within the U.S., mostly because the calendar will contain U.S. holidays and it will be more helpful to that person. For every calendar post that you comment on, you will earn one drawing entry (one entry per blog post, not per comment). I’m planning to give away one calendar to a lucky winner, and possibly another one to the person who comes in second, depending on the number of participants.

You can click on any photo below to open the slideshow and view everything in a larger format. Please include your comments into the post comment section directly, not on individual photos, to make it easier for everyone to see your feedback.

There are several photos in this gallery I’ve never featured on this website before, so I hope you notice them as nice additions. Finally, I know one of these photos is a lotus and not a water lily, so I’d like your opinion on including it in the calendar or not.

Macro Monday: bees on pink flowers

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Today I’m taking part in the Macro Monday photo challenge. You can click on each photo for a larger view.

If you like what you see, I encourage you to subscribe so you can enjoy the new photos I post a few times a week.

I love photographing bees as they’re collecting nectar off the many flowers we have here in San Diego. These pink flowers were actually blooms on a large bush last summer. I think I will add the first photo as a potential choice for my animal theme 2014 photo calendar. I love that hue of pink!

Macro Monday: bee on pink flower
Macro Monday: bee on pink flower

Here’s another bee dunking its head into the center of the flower.

Bee collecting nectar on pink flower
Bee collecting nectar on pink flower